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Andrew Dickson White touched 
American public life at many and im¬ 
portant points. He won the title of 
Academician both by scholarship, by 
literary performance, and by public 
service. His life was a fortunate and 
a happy one. He could take no 
credit for clambering out of poverty, 
since his parents were in comfortable 
circumstances. He began life with¬ 
out knowing either poverty or riches, 
but with a sound training at the Acad¬ 
emies of Cortland and Syracuse and 
at Yale College. European travel 
broadened and enriched his mind and 
laid the foundation for those educa- 


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tional and public interests that dom¬ 
inated his maturer years. On return¬ 
ing to the United States he hesitated a 
little, as others have done, between 
education and politics, and finally 
chose both. He justly considered in¬ 
stitution-building as the highest form 
of public service, and to it he devoted 
a great part of his life activity. Cor¬ 
nell University is his monument and a 
dozen other undertakings have been 
helped by his hand and guided by his 
vision. His legislative service in the 
State of New York was rather signifi¬ 
cant than important, although it gave 
him a hold upon the working political 
forces of the State that he never lost. 
His foreign service was acceptable in 
high degree both to his own people 
and to the governments to which he 
was successively accredited. In Ger¬ 
many, in particular, he was heartily 
received, and in Germany among 
both scholars and public men he 


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exercised a wide and strong personal 
influence. 

From boyhood Dr. White had pro¬ 
found respect for literature and its 
makers, and his strong scholarly in¬ 
stinct carried him inevitably into the 
field of authorship. His bibliography 
is rich and long, but perhaps the two 
titles included in it that are most to be 
remembered are his History of the 
Warfare of Science and Theology 
and his Autobiography. The former 
is his chief contribution to history and 
its understanding, and its composition 
and completion occupied his mind for 
quite a quarter-century. His purpose 
in writing this book was, as he himself 
has declared, to strengthen not only 
science but religion. His purpose was 
to aid in freeing science from tram¬ 
mels which for centuries had been 
vexatious and cruel, and also to 
strengthen religion by enabling its 
teachers to see some of the evils in the 


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past which, for the sake of their 
charge, they ought to guard against 
in the future. 

His Autobiography is a work of 
singular charm. It not only tells the 
story of an honorable and distin¬ 
guished life, but it throws a flood of 
light upon personalities and happen¬ 
ings of the greatest interest to all 
mankind. 

Dr. White was elected to the Acad¬ 
emy on January 28, 1908, to fill Chair 
32. He died full of years and of hon¬ 
ors on November 4, 1918. 


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